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b the carolina watchman j j bruner i } " keep a check v pÂ«n all voce editor f proprietor ) ruleks { new series uothis and liberty is safe < gen'l harri,on \ volume ix number 3 salisbury n c thursday may 20 1852 t^omolmh watchjia.n gjjsol -â– " vo do r a rs-payable in ' p r v ; 1>1 advance two dollars jul i "" l ' . z 1 s/.jf Â«Â» the first and 25 eta Â» w tuw^n insertion courtorders 'â€¢ ''" m.rher than these rates ahb f r ct hose who advertise by the year . o!ina watchman vfje asteroids rcmarka-le harmony in the works tr erel5a thl , j s geeo in a high degree in i ca!ure , aianc ed system of which ihis earth i â€¢â€¢ much design is seen in all the r par . " tbe , n akes ol the bodies thai form | <*â– -'"'' . rc aiioi)s were long since discov j a iheir distance from the sun and '**â€¢ of revolution around it these are i f tfe ! l amous law Â°' kefler ' hal '; rft e j ,| ie nmes ol revolution are as f jar t their mean distances from lhe j ' cut,e " v these distances increase n g each lime as ihey proceed out ( vtbesun : that is the space between j â– '' nd venus is only half that between i ' '" d the eaith : and ln ' s latter is in lhe j '"*', port io l0 lh:t ' between the earth and ; ** nil from jupiter lo saturn is hall lhe ! if ' from saturn to herschell which was '' ''' , "â– n 1781 but there was found to be , k likable exception to this rule tbei between m rs and jupiter did not cor jul was so wide as to need just ] to et to revolve there to complete j wrwhij ol the system : there was just j ( ".,, i o move twice as far from jupiter as l * i ir i in accordance wiih thai law ac 1 j ji was predicted that as there ought t 3t*r planet there one would be dis i pying that place and if none , m-i he discovered it was said there ,Â» ground for inference thai there bad | oe ibere irom the lact that it was neces j a the system according io the j revailed in th other cases this led examination of lhal part ofthe t such a body might be expected nl century was ushered in by the *, i-u io the world ol a new planet which irked unseen in that space this ,,,.; v ihe announcement of the pre bree others in company of the first irs e ol aboul six years ; all filling the ., where one only was needed the ut discovery was hen arrested in this ' rtboul 4(1 years ; till in 1845 having hjirtiis of greater power astronomers com tia new career of discovery in that re k iad ihey have continued to add lo the list ft panels found in this fertile field till i umber al least 15 at lhe present lime ; urtber also is reported on the 8th dec 5 about which we have not yet sure inlel r,ce we will give a list of the names n ol discovery and discoverers of ihese iti l cere january 1 1801 by piazzi . pi m march 28 1802 by olbers i jano sept 1 1804 by harding i ve.*m march 29 1807 by olbers :. astrea dec 8 1845 by hencke ti hebe july 1 1647 by henrke august 13 1847 by hind â€¢ flora oct 18 h47 by hind i hetis april 25 1848 by graham hjgeid april 12 1848 by gasparis i parthenope ma 13 1850 by gasparis . clio sept 13 1850 by hind ! elena noi 2 1850 by gasparis ii lena mav 20 1851 by hind euoomia july 29 1851 by gasparis it last century one planet was a desid i.:n but now it seems that we shall soon rtieore and long before so many were they were all concluded lo be fragments m arge body which had exploded a long they are all very small the ii like a star of the sixth magnitude ; are ol the eighth ; while the next '*' nt the ninth except metis which is â€¢ wi or eleventh so many small bodies mr together and apparently connected nt & lingular phenomenon in our system irpumenis adduced lu show lhal ihey may atte formed one planet are ! - 1 nat as just shown they are much small other primary planets > they ate nearly at the same dis "' ' ni the sun ir limes of revolution around lhe ill the same ir orbits deviate more from the f>b ecliptic lhan those of the olher â– 'â€¢' iheir orbits are more eccentric me ol their orbits cross each other l**l they appear irregular in shape hav â– sand angular extremities . le,r wall size has led some io entertain 0 hat ihey were once the satellites iheir diameters do not exceed a few - that of ceres is estimated at ! of juno under 100 the bulk i supposed to be not more than p e thousandth part of the ear â€” table that the whole number now t together would not equal the 11 ot ihe earth there are many the way of supposing these all to lormed one body their orbits do id ~ a an . v w o points as they oughi then . j 1 nearest distance of one of ihem to jt tt 25,000.000 of miles beyond he j l ce of iwo others from their " uns and motions it is difficult lo â– hey could ever have all started t e s point if they did it must have n,l!e ages since which they have ded from each other ' '-- another difficulty in the way of m theory that they are fragments ' r^and that is to accounl for its dis ho can imagine lhe greatness of bec . e8mr y â€¢ or explain whence lhat - - arise ? â€¢â– â– uÂ°'l causes of ihi tremendous explo c _ .^ 5u s ge sled arpi l8tj the collision of ki 0 * lbe p!anet wilh such force as ' ( [ nece *. and 2d an internal ac ! "* ea r h i '* g Â°'"Â» on in , * lc '<* teri l w and^l 1s volcanoes and ear,h tk.lon ih the rnelcoric stones that so ** c^do s h 8urf&pe Â° f lhe earlh * 8 Â° differ ;* f n irom terrestrial bodies are ; i ;;; i(jf " hat explosion that have i s ' ult u "' verse e?er 8ince in p lace he se ? ne,i11 he v found it here ! le p'"uhlp Â° r n ' her of hem * are sufficient ta h jir c_.ii i*i - i i ., f^formhi uch an even Â» ever y j ol :. ,* no p d n sir john hers ?** ili.â€žv al " ma y serve as a sped utoh '" ull '"' h as onomers like j 8 *' the k oceilsiot v and harmlessly o ft h0wevcr ' hm ha <* rea 01 u chemie for the watchman dear editor â€” forasmuch as many have ta ken in hand to set forth in order a declaration j uf those things which they have most surely seen and heard it seems good to me also bav ing had some observation lo write unlo thee most excellent watchman that ihou mayest i know of lhe things of which i shall testily there was once a time when the continental ! congress feeling themselves insecure in phil , adelphia adjourned to a small town lo the west j ward distant from the capilol about one hun j dred miles of ihis and ils environs i wish to speak though at he lime of which i am wri ; ting a small and rather insignificanl place it , j has now grown up to be a large enterprising , i beautiful and delightful lown the old court ' house in which lhe wisdom of the nation as i sembled to deliberate and devise ways and i means for lhe liberation of our country from british tyranny is now entirely demolished and i | in its stead another ol much larger dimensions ' i and belter taste has been erected occupying not like the old one a central but a side posi tion the codorus a large and beautiful stream [ of water divides the town into iwo very nearly j ( equal portions and sometimes too in cases of j i iresheis proves highly destrudive of peace and j i property to the great terror and consternation of , i old women and young maids tbe baltimore i < and susquehanna rail road also passen through < ibis place and nothing has done more for its i general improvement and increase in wealth < and population lhan this road a striking dem < unsiration ofthe utility and an irrefragable ar < gumeni in favor of internal improvements let i the ciiizens of salisbury and other parts ofthe i stale never rest satisfied until the " central l road is completed and in full operation it is i to a great extent the only hope for norlh car 1 olina it is true those nobie-hearled men by i whose praiseworthy energies the road is now i being built may never themselves realize any i extraordinary profits yet the state will be hon i ored and improved posterity enriched and their i children in grateful acknowledgements will i rise up and call them blessed < there is much attention paid here to the ed ucation of the young there being in this place 'â– one college several academies and numerous i common schools kept on the akron system lhat is each scholar is classed according to his < attainments and attends his appropriate school this is wihout doubt a most excellent and very i superior plan and it some scheme could be con i trived lo render this system feasible through the i country as it is in towns and villages we might then reasonably expect ihe educational fund to ! accomplish that whereunto it was intended ! ii the reader will now accompany me down i tothe corner of the second square in south j george street i will show him one of the hand somest specimens of modern architeciure he ; has perhaps ever seen this is lhe odd fel low's hall ; erected a lew years ago il is a very large building four stories high the firsi floor being constructed for business is occu ; pied by merchants mechanics c the second is a town hall and a very capacious and con venient one il is loo the third story is occu pied i believe by lhe sons of temperance and lhe fourth is thai in which the lodge meeis in the still hour of lhe night to confer and delib erate in profound secrecy upon those ihings which make for their eternal external and in ternal welfare as for the good people of this lown i can only say ihey are industrious and enterprising well educated and rnfined espe cially lhe ladies who excel in beauly and grace i taste and accomplishments and though nol prod igal in dress yet neat and tidy as fairies it is a perfect feasl on a cool summer evening to j stand in a prominent place in main street and view these charming creatures promenading up and down the town if you follow one of ihem to her place of residence you will find every t h i ri c-r so excessively neat and clean so pure and in such perfect order that in spite of you a kind of uneasiness seizes hold upon you lest by a single touch you soil a piece of furniture or some other useful or ornamental article â€” labor is by no means considered degrading in this seciion of couniry or in this celebrated bor oiiÂ«h bul on lhe conlrary it is esteemed hon orable and highly necessary for the promotion of health and happiness everyman lhe rich as well as lhe poor labors at least a part of each day with his own hands ; and these fair ies above menlioned the daugnters of the wealthiest citizens and upon whom from their appearance on the street you might think the sun had never shone ; if you visit ihem in lhe early part of lhe day you will find them engag ed nol only in sewing but in all those olher more menial domestic duties in which many who call themselves ladies would think it de trading to be employed these are the girls for me give me the wife that can act both the lady and ihe maid one that possesses every accomplishment requisite for mingling in lhe best society as well as every qualification nee essary for the proper management of culinary dutiss such women make the american j wife of whicb lhe nation may well he proud j such a woman was the mother of'washington | why should it be ihought disgraceful to labor why should not the ploughman and the me chanic sland upon an equality with the banker the merchani and the professional character is there any ihing really ignoble or despicaole about his occupation ; does it lend to the sub version ofcivil liberty or lhe diminution of hu man happiness ? if nol why then should a line ofdemarkation be dra.vn belwixt the man who labors and lhe man who does not nay verily none bul fools and coxcombs make such a d.s tinciion bul i am again digressing and if the reader will pardon me and accompany me once more in another stroll over town he will observe quite a number of magnificent churches ol va rious denominations the principal among which are lutherans presbyterians episcopalians methodists and friends this is decidedly a church going people and there are few places in which tbe name of lhe lord is held in great er reverence liule children are laughi in the infant schools to lisp the name of jesus and hundreds ol the young of both sexes in the sabbath schools are instrucled in lhe pure doc trines of our holy religion if from him lo whom much is given much will also be requir ed ben ibis people have a weighty responsi bility resting upon ihem for they certainly have line upon line and precept upon precept â€” bless ed abundantly with all the means of grace and religious facilities for their spiritual improve ment but ihey are not only religiously favor ed nature and art seem lo vie with each oth er for the advancement and completion of their ! temporal comlorts and enjoyments a beauli ful town more beautifully situated wilh wide \ streets and broad pavements overlaid with j brick and as smooth as a floor hydron water i and gas lights a market abundantly supplied irom lhe surrounding country and neighboring cities wiih everything that the hearl of man could wish or lhe appetite of an epicure desire are some of the comforts and luxuries of life which these people enjoy i envy ihem not on tbe conlrary i admire their enterprising spir it they are the makers of their own fortunes tbe blessing they enjoy are under god the re suits of their own industry there are no reg ular loafers here ; none who regard labor as dishonorable or degrading or think it beneath the gentleman to soil the hands or use the limbs which god has given him would that men could everywhere learn lhe wil of making them selves comfortable and happy and instead of idling away their lime or hoarding riches to dispense with iheir strength and means as mosl effectually tocontribute to iheir own and others enjoyment how little real comfort is manifest in mosl of our towns and villages ; neglected streets muddy lanes filthy allies and pavements oh horror ; upon whicb you must be afraid to walk lest you chuck your foot against a big stone or slump and presently measure your lengih on the ground : these are only some of the disgusting things with which you meet in nu merous would be thought respectable towns not so in the town of which i have been speak ing here they have side walks sixteen or more feet wide carefully leveled down and beautiful paved wilh the best of brick and kept constantly as neat and clean as a floor â€” here the lover in his nightly strolls may gaze at tbe stars to his heart's content without ever endangering his " nose " or his two " big toes let us now ascend to tbe observatory and take a brief view of lhe surrounding couniry a beau tiful undulating surface wilh here and there a slight elevation orchards whealfields mead ows or clover fields and rivulets interspersed with here and there a lovely grove of oaks above whose towering lops the curling smoke is seen to rise indicating lhe abode of the husbandman these are some of lhe objects which present themselves to tbe eye of the be holder ; and should he have the curiosity to know the value of lhat highly improved land upon which he observes lhe wheal and clover growing so luxuriantly the answer is from one hundred and fifty to two hundred dollars per acre so much for the spirit of improvement among farmers and their untiring industry â€” and now dear reader if you are satisfied we will descend to terra firma and leave you to your own meditations lenox the latest from california from an occasional correspondent " additional items â€” great freshet â€” sacramento and marysville inunda ted ! â€” heavy damages san francisco march 25 1852 dear watchman : â€” california is a queer couniry a native tree producing foreign fruit it is a mystery ; and is as full of whims and freaks and rowdy tricks as a young maniac â€” il is a riddle â€” an enigma ; a thing thai always takes you unawares it is a sort of miniature earlh lhat embodies the peculiarities pleas ures mishaps and wonders of almost every land and ocean locality in the world it is an epitome an abridgment of tbe world â€” a kind of magnifying mirror in which is reflected the characteristics ofall nations and lhe phenomna of all nature it is a bundle or cabinet of curiosilies â€” a " world's fair iu which may be found a con tribution from nearly every nook and corner in lhe universe it is a nosegay composed of an equal number of sweet odoriferous and offen sive flowers all regularly intermixed and in seperably bound together a conspicuous thor ny beast of prey and serpentine highway thai leads to fortune it to speak figuratively must have served at the time of creation as the trying â€” board upon which lhe great arlist tested lhe color and qualities of his paints and upon which be made his experiments and shaped the charac ter and condition of the olher slates ot lhe world ; and hence it is that in one way or an other it bears a more or less resemblance to and partakes ofthe nature of them all il is an italy in ihe mildness and tempera lure of the climate a siberia in cold fogs and snow ; a kentucky in calm and salubrious weaiher an east india in frisky gales and monsoons il is an ohio in soil an arabia in deserts and egypt in flats and plains a switzerland in mountains it is a holland â€” a mississippi in low banked rivers and inunda lions a persia in fruitless elevated bills and drouths it is a spain â€” a portugal in staid catholic absurdities tomfoolery and dissolution ; a france â€” a germany in radicalism theory and speculation it is an england in hardiness and industry a yucatan in imbecility and idlers it is a turkey in seraglios and broth els a sandwich islands in disease and death ll is a chili in earthquakes a plague in rats and fleas it is itself in mines ; it has no equal it is also itself nor has il any equal j in obscenity insanity drunkenness debauche j ry and crimes il is a swindle a cheat a | vanity fair â€” it is a magnificent humbug j speaking of all this i must nol lorget lo tell j you thai lhe heavy rains which visited us from j tbe 3rd lo the 10th instant swelled our princi pal rivers several feet above their banks and entirely submerged the valleys of lhe san joa quin and sacramento al one lime it was feared thai the city of marysville wohm be lit erally washed away for about a week lhe streets were not passible otherwise than in small boats â€¢ and i understand that many frightened occupants were taken in boats from j the second story windows of their houses ! â€” sacramento city too was seriously flooded and has also suffered immense losses ol pro perty thousands and thousands of cattle have been drowned or 9wepted away in common | with bridges fences c tfec and although ' , we have not yei received full accounts from the ', j more distant parts of the country affected by the j | inundation quite a number of persons have al ( j ready been reported as having lost their lives , j by il a great coui.lry this i like cali | | fornia â€” i do â€” over the left adieu h r h selected eor the watchman hear what de tocque ville says it is easy to show how much the suc cess of the democratic republic in the | united states is due to the religious feel ! ing of the people in europe most of the disorder in society has its origin in the j domestic circle and not far from the nup tial couch frequently the european finds ! it difficult to submit to the powers of the state only because tumultuous passions agitate his own dwelling and that he is there a prey to the uneasiness of the heart and the instability of desires in the uni ted states the residence of the citizen is the image of order and of peace north america according to tbe opinion of all who have visited it is the country where the conjugal fie is most appreciated this good state of morals in america has its origin in religious faith religion would probably be powerless to restrain man in the presence of the temptations with whicb he is assailed by fortune ; but it reigns supreme over the mind of woman ; and it is woman who forms public mor als as long as americans shall pre serve the severity of their moral conduct they will preserve the democratic repub lic if their morals become relaxed if they become vicious it will be because reli gion has been deprived of its authority instead of a free nation there will be a degraded mass governed by the corrupt rich republican institutions may exist in name but the name will become a de ception it will be like the roman re public which existed in name under the cabsars but the reality of which had com pletely disappeared in the united states religion also gov erns the mind restrains it in its aberra tions arid thus becomes a guaranty ofthe duration of the republic every body in the u s professes religious dogmas the small number who are not sincere chris j tians affect to be so lest they should be suspected of having no religion : chris j tianity therefore has an external adhe sion which is unanimous tbe result of this is that in the moral world every thing is fixed although the political world may ! appear to be entirely given up to discus ! sion and rash experiments the human j mind in the united states has not before j it an unlimited space however bold iti may be it feels that there are insurmount j able barriers before wbich it must stop j hence it happens that in all classes there is a certain restraint either voluntary or \ the result of force the sandwich island volcano the volcano at hawaii sandwich isl j ands beats vesuvius and hecla in the grandeur and extent of its eruptions we j have the following further account ofthe i last eruption in the polynesian received by the recent california mail " we have received verbal information in regard to the state of the eruption as late as to the gth instant from the leeward | side of hawaii at that date the light i from the flowing current was as bright as ! jt had been at any former period suffi cient to enable a person to pick up a nee dle from the ground at midnight from i which fact the inference is drawn that the i current is still flowing on toward the sea the current seems to have broken out i through an old fissure about one third | down the side of mauna loa on the i northwest side and not from the old crater ! on the summit called mokuoweoweo the altitude of the present eruption is i about ten thousand feet above the level j of the sea and from the bay of hilo by ron's bay must be some fifty miles if it ' succeed in reaching the ocean at the point ! supposed after having filled up all the ravines gulches and inequalities of a ve ry broken country.it will undoubtedly be one of the most extensive eruptions of modern times a correspondent of the polynesian gives . the following description : " by an accurate measurement of the enormous jet of glowing lava where it | first broke forth on the side of mauna leo it was ascertained to be five hundred feet i high this was upon the supposition i that it was thirtv miles distant we are i of the opinion that it was a greater d.s i tance say from forty to sixty miles with ! a glass the play of this jet at night was distinctly observed and a more sublime sight can scarcely be imagined a column of mol'.en lava glowing with the most m i tense heat and projecting into the air to a distance of five hundred feet was a sight of rare and at tbe same time so aw ! fully grand as to excite the most lively feelings of awe and admiration even ' when viewed at a distance of forty or fifty ' miles the diameter of this jet is supposed to be over one hundred feet ; and this we can easily believe when we reflect that from it issued the river of lava that flow ' ed off from it toward the sea in some ] places this river is a mile wide and in j others more contracted at some points it has filled up ravines one hundred two â– hundred and three hundred feet in depth â– and still it flowed on it entered a heavy | forest and the giant growth of centuries i is cut down before it like grass before the t mower's scythe ! no obstacle can arrest i it in its descent to the sea mou.ids are < covered over ravines are filled up forests ' are destroyed and the habitations of man ! are consumed like flax in the furnace â€” ' truly he toucheth the hills and they ; smoke " we have not yet heard of any de j struction of life from tbe eruption now in progress a rumor has reached us that , a small native village has been destroyed , but of this we have no authentic intelli | gence storm at the west â€” a despatch receiv , ed last evening from cincinnati says the western papers contain accounts of great destruction of property by the storm of ] last friday night the town of leaven worth indiana was nearly destroyed : i forty houses were blown down some of 'â– them substantial brick buildings with : thirteen inch walls two or three persons j were killed and a number badly injured i in various other places houses fences and orchards of valuable fruit trees were ] destroyed at cleveland ohio it com j menced on friday afternoon and was ac ! companied with torrents of rain and hail of the size of bird's eggs which played sad havoc with window glass at lan caster ohio the storm set in between 9 and 10 o'clock at night and lasted but fifteen minutes it was accompanied by thunder and lightning and blew down and unroofed a number of houses carried off bridges and destroyed all the fencing in the surrounding country at cincin nati the green houses were nearly demol ished by the hail as far as the glass was concerned ; and the plants and grape vines seriously injured heavy squalls of wind followed the storm which unroofed the methodist church at mount auburn be sides other damage what is a kossuth bond ? a gentleman who got " sucked in with one the other day to the amount of one dollar has kindly loaned not given it to us that we may determine to what spe cies of humbug it belongs it is dated new york february 2 1852 cbeck let ter b no 20,798 at the top is the gen j ius of liberty treading on the neck of a king at the bottom on the left is a full portrait of kossuth with his hat and fea ther ; on the right the personification of liberty the filling up is as follows hungarian fund on demand one year after lhe establish â€¢ ment in fact of the independent hungarian . government the bolder hereof shall he enii j tied to one dollar payable at the national treasury or al either of its agencies at lou don or new york or to exchange lhe same in i sums of fifty dollars or over for certificates bearing four per cent interest payable in ten eq lal annual instalments from one year afier said event " l kossuth it will be observed that kossuth does not promise to pay this money himself nor does he promise that any body else shall pay it but only that the bearer shall be " entitled to receive it i c if he can get it either at tbe agency of the hun garian treasury in london or in new york i e if there should be any such agency in one year after the establish ment in fact of the hungarian govern ment i e if there should be any such government if he did promise that it should be paid by the hungarian govern j ment they would be no more bound by bis promise than we are he was once j governor of hungary but formally re signed tbe trust when the crisis came so that " robin's alive did not even die in his hand such ** bond's are a bur lesque upon the very idea of a promise they are a fraud or humbug on the face of them ; and for that reason if no olher ought not to be encouraged journal of commerce unwholesome contagion â€” the follow ing extract from an article in the new york tribune sets fourth in pretty strong colors the influence of congressional ex j travagance and prodigality on the man , who leaves bis home with the idea that i eight dollars a day is fine wages though ' highly colored there is a great deal of j , truth in the paragraph â€¢ the congressman has bawled himsell ' hoarse on the stump in behalf of retrench ( i ment and reform but he reaches wash ' in^ton and sees millions going this way ! anÂ°d other millions that a dash ofthe pen : 1 and his eight dollars per day which look ! ed o inviting in the prospect dwindles | in full view of these dazzling realities i into a pittance which he would be asham i ed to kerp his dogs on so he begins by i * overcharging bis mileage by some mag nificient circumbendibus ; next votes him self a cart load of books which he often sells at a ruinovs shave but he pockets the proceeds and uncle sam the loss ;) and now he is ready for jobbing in contracts in claims and dabbles in all manner of miscellaneous corruption whereby the ex penditures are swelled and the treasury depleted so up go the appropriations to an enormous fig re but nobody is to blame party hacks try to make party capital out of it and pot applies unseemly epithets to kettle ; new demagogues contrive to supplant some of the old ones and fall to realizing esop's fable ofthe fox and tbe flies ; so nothing comes of this withering expose and that tremendious castigation but infinite confusion wrangling and empty noise ; at all events no retrench ment but rather increased extravagance waste and peculation heroic conduct of a lady a burglary occurred in roxbury last night in whicb three ruffians were concerned all of whom were frightened and fled at lhe appear ance of a solitary female the particulars of this burglary are of more than ordinary inter est it appears that at a late ho three burg lars effected an entrance into th aouse of da vid a simmons on the highlanl at roxbury by means of culling away tbe sash and remov ing the glass to a window once in tbe bouse the robbers went to work systematically and ransacked every room until they came to that of mrs ruggles a relative o mr simmons irom whom tbey stold a gold watch and o'ber small but valuable articles the robbers then entered the room of mr eliza sumner a sister of mr simmons but no sooner had they made their unceremonious ap pearance than mrs sumner sprang out ot the bed and seized a poker two of ibe rascals seeing the determined manner of mrs sum ner made their egress irom the premises in double quick lime ; but the third thinking per haps lo defeat a weak and almost defenceless woman lingered behind his companions and met with such a reception as we regret to say is accorded to few burglars mrs sumner dealt him a blow over tbe head with the poker thus enforcing a command to leave the premises inslanter tbe fellow took the hint and started in such haste that instead of passing out of the door be dashed through a window carrying away sash and all and tailing down an embankment oi three or tour leet in height previous to making this hurri ed exit lhe burglar threw a hatchet at mrs sumner but very fortunately the missile passed its intended victim and lodged in a door on lhe opposite side of lhe room in making bis egress through the window the burglar dropped be watch and other ar ticles stolen from the room of mrs ruggles il is supposed lhat lhe robber was badly in jured as his track was traced hy his blood which trickled from the wounds he received it appears lhat from the highlands the robber passed across the forts â€” traces of bloed being found on his rack until he reached the prem ises of mr george simmons after passing ihis estate in he darkness be is supposed to have run or walked off a cliff which is about twenty feel in height and at the bottom of wbich was lound a large pool of blood this morning as well as a clotb cap thoroughly saturated with the same fluid â€” boston journal common carriers â€” the philadelphia /Â«â€¢ quirer of the 16lh inst publishes the opinion of chief justice black in case of chouteaux vs leech wbich is important lo business men and common carriers it is believed to nave been the first case decided in pennsylvania io whicb it is recognized as the duty of a common canier to take care of goods while on their transit beyond the ordinary care of safe stow age and prompt and regular transmission al though the chief justice regards the law as al ways having existed in the same way a point of more importance because of more frequent occurrence is also decided namely : " lhat any limitation of lhe ordinary risk of a common carrier must be sbowi lo have been agreed to by the parly employing bim otherwise it will be of no value to the carrier even though il be inserted in tbe bill of lading on the receipt for the goods fatal affray we learn from tbe lancaster ledger that on saturday last a fatal affray occurred at the mill of mr john reaves in that district it appears that two young men by the name of bowers went lo lhe mill and while there a difficulty look place between reaves and tbos bowers while archibald bowers a brother pres ent dismounted from his horse and threw a stick or piece of sawed timber at reaves â€” when reaves got in possession of the same and beat a bowers so that he died in about six hours reaves has since surrendered himselt to the proper authorities and is now in close confine ment there being no animosity existing be iween reaves and the deceased previous lo this affair it is presumed lo be the work of un governable passion terrible tragedy at danville eyâ€”a bloody street encounter occuired at danville ky a few davs ago between dr frar.k cowan and two brothers named shelby in consequence of an annonymous letter received hy miss shelby ihe parties had pi-tols cowan first received a ball through the fleshy part of the leg from a five barrel revolver fired by joseph shelby and then fired three times at shelby the last taking effect in the nock the ball passing en tirely through and falling down in his shirt bosom shelby staggered in a store where bis brother alfred was and fell dead tne latter then seized a bowie knife advanced on cowan and threw it at him without effect cowan iben pursued alfred with a bowie knife in hand when several persons interfered and no fur ther harm was done the parties are all young men hats for ladies â€” the leghorn hat for ladies is likely it is said to recover : the favor which it enjoyed some years ' ago wiih the public in paris london 1 and new york it is to be the rage during the approaching season so we may ex pect it along in tbe country in due time 1 and several discreet old matrons of whom ! we wot will again find their head-gear in 1 in the tip of the go we always thought it more dignified and becoming to sit down and wait quietly for the fashion to come ' round than to be always running after it like a puppy chasing his tail and never overtaking it v c argms

b the carolina watchman j j bruner i } " keep a check v pÂ«n all voce editor f proprietor ) ruleks { new series uothis and liberty is safe < gen'l harri,on \ volume ix number 3 salisbury n c thursday may 20 1852 t^omolmh watchjia.n gjjsol -â– " vo do r a rs-payable in ' p r v ; 1>1 advance two dollars jul i "" l ' . z 1 s/.jf Â«Â» the first and 25 eta Â» w tuw^n insertion courtorders 'â€¢ ''" m.rher than these rates ahb f r ct hose who advertise by the year . o!ina watchman vfje asteroids rcmarka-le harmony in the works tr erel5a thl , j s geeo in a high degree in i ca!ure , aianc ed system of which ihis earth i â€¢â€¢ much design is seen in all the r par . " tbe , n akes ol the bodies thai form | they ate nearly at the same dis "' ' ni the sun ir limes of revolution around lhe ill the same ir orbits deviate more from the f>b ecliptic lhan those of the olher â– 'â€¢' iheir orbits are more eccentric me ol their orbits cross each other l**l they appear irregular in shape hav â– sand angular extremities . le,r wall size has led some io entertain 0 hat ihey were once the satellites iheir diameters do not exceed a few - that of ceres is estimated at ! of juno under 100 the bulk i supposed to be not more than p e thousandth part of the ear â€” table that the whole number now t together would not equal the 11 ot ihe earth there are many the way of supposing these all to lormed one body their orbits do id ~ a an . v w o points as they oughi then . j 1 nearest distance of one of ihem to jt tt 25,000.000 of miles beyond he j l ce of iwo others from their " uns and motions it is difficult lo â– hey could ever have all started t e s point if they did it must have n,l!e ages since which they have ded from each other ' '-- another difficulty in the way of m theory that they are fragments ' r^and that is to accounl for its dis ho can imagine lhe greatness of bec . e8mr y â€¢ or explain whence lhat - - arise ? â€¢â– â– uÂ°'l causes of ihi tremendous explo c _ .^ 5u s ge sled arpi l8tj the collision of ki 0 * lbe p!anet wilh such force as ' ( [ nece *. and 2d an internal ac ! "* ea r h i '* g Â°'"Â» on in , * lc '